Bunny Lake Is Missing

Based on the mystery novel by Marryam Modell (using the pseudonym Evelyn Piper), -Bunny Lake Is Missing is a bizarre study in motherhood, kindness, enigma, and insanity. Ann Lake (Carol Lynley), an American freshly relocated to England, wishes to drop off her daughter Bunny for the girl's first day ...more

Otto Preminger dismissed Bunny Lake Is Missing as his "small" and "unsuccessful" project. Next to the director's behemoth, Exodus, and his jewel, Laura, the film certainly pales in scope and accolades. Yet in the years since Preminger's death, this insignificant mystery has become a cult favorite and a critics' doll. Cinema aficionados have rallied for its video release and scholars Jeanine Basinger and Andrew Sarris show it regularly in their film studies courses. Bunny Lake Is Missing really ...more